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Iraqi weapons dossier sexed up, say senior experts

The Government's dossier on Iraq's weapons capability was hardened up in the days before its publication in a number of key respects that did not tally with the views of some of its most senior experts, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Scrutiny of documents released by the Hutton inquiry into the death of the weapons expert Dr David Kelly reveals that not only were key claims about the nature and extent of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction strengthened in the two weeks before the dossier's publication in September 2002 but that a crucial change was made to the title.
Right up until the publication of the final draft, and as late as 19 September, the document was entitled 'Iraq's programme for weapons of mass destruction'. But on 24 September, when the Government published the finished version, it left out the words 'programme for'. - independent.co.uk